Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: pyppd
Version: 0.4.9
Summary: A CUPS PostScript Printer Driver's compressor and generator
Home-page: http://gitorious.org/vitorbaptista/pyppd/
Author: Vitor Baptista
Author-email: vitor@vitorbaptista.com
License: GPLv3
Description: pyppd
        =====
        
        ``pyppd`` is a CUPS PPD generator. It holds an compressed archive of PPDs, which
        can be listed and retrieved only when needed by CUPS, saving disk space.
        
        Instalation
        -----------
        
        To install ``pyppd``, you can use:
        
          # pip install pyppd
        
        Or download the source package, uncompress, and run as root:
        
          # python setup.py install
        
        It depends on Python 2.x (http://www.python.org) and XZ Utils
        (http://tukaani.org/xz/).
        
        Usage
        -----
        
        At first, you have to create a PPD archive. For such, put all PPDs (they might
        be gzipped) you want to add in the archive inside a single folder (which can
        have subfolders), then run:
        
          $ pyppd /path/to/your/ppd/folder
        
        It'll create ``pyppd-ppdfile`` in your current folder. You can test it by
        running:
        
          $ ./pyppd-ppdfile list
        
        And, for reading a PPD from the archive, simply do:
        
          $ ./pyppd-ppdfile cat pyppd-ppdfile:MY-PPD-FILE.PPD
        
        For CUPS to be able to use your newly-created archive, copy ``pyppd-ppdfile``
        to ``/usr/lib/cups/driver/`` and you're done.
        
        The generated ``pyppd-ppdfile`` can be arbitrarily renamed, so that more than
        one packed repository can be installed on one system. This can be useful if
        you need a better performance, be it in time or memory usage. Note that also
        the PPD URIs will follow the new name:
        
          $ ./pyppd-ppdfile list
        
          pyppd-ppdfile:LasterStar/LaserStar-XX100.ppd
        
          $ mv pyppd-ppdfile laserstar
        
          $ ./laserstar list
        
          laserstar:LaserStar/LaserStar-XX100.ppd
        
        Contributors
        ------------
        
        * **Till Kamppeter** - Original idea, mentoring and feedback. User #0.
        
        * **Hin-Tak Leung** - Lots of technical suggestions.
        
        * **Flávio Ribeiro** and **Diógenes Fernandes** - Refactorings and general Python's best practices tips.
        
        * **Google's OSPO** - Initial funding at GSoC 2010.
        
        Issues
        ------
        
        * Add unit tests.
        * When testing if the PPD generated from the \*Product line already exists in a
          \*1284DeviceID line, we do a case-sensitive test. I think it should be case-
          insensitive.
        * Generate manpage.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: System Administrators
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Topic :: Printing
